Olive Baking Company — Restaurant in San Diego

You get what you pay for, BUT NOT HERE on SOME things.

The sausage and cheese kolache is a $0.50 sausage patty (2024 sausage patty "price to quality" ratio, not 2003 "price to quality" sausage patty ratio, disgusting sausage) thrown in a nicely baked, southern California twist of a Polish delight. My advice to the owners:

The microwave sausage tastes fine, but chop it up after microwaving the sausage, and THEN throw in the sausage in the baked good. Biting into that preservative filled sausage patty made me very pissed. 0/10 stars for what the sausage and cheese solution is. The sausage patty was also as thin as a piece of paper, for an idea for quantity of meat.

Their bacon egg and cheese kolache is good, 7/10 for the baking, 3/10 for the filling.

Their latte is like drinking oddly tasting milk, without the espresso. It just doesn't taste like a good latte. I've traveled across the country, and world, everywhere knows how to make a latte, except this place.

Both kolaches were "warmed up" great on the outside, but still cold on the inside.

The employees were silently baking and making coffee like it was a bakery from the years of the crusades over a thousand years ago, in misery. Any music (nature background noise, waves from a beach, literally anything) would improve the atmosphere. It was nice to experience a bakery vibe from the year 500.

Locals probably think its a great 5 star experience because its what they are stuck with in their community within walking distance. The sugar addicts who love sugary cinnamon rolls might be giving this place 5/5 stars, I see through the sugar-dopamine increases they leave on people....

This is a cute walk in breakfast & bakery location that is in perfect walking distance of the beach. They have a wide variety of pastries and coffee to purchase, along with a little store.

We ordered the sausage, egg, and cheese kolache (which was incredible warmed up), the chocolate Croissant (which was average), and the Cinammon Roll (which was dry unless you warmed it up at home). I also got the vegan banana bread, which was delicious.

The cinnamon roll, while quite massive in size for the price, was not good cold. We had to microwave it for it to be tasty.

All in all, we spent $20 on 4 items, which was a good price considering the location right near the beach. It's a good grab and go kind of place and the staff were...

The bakery that is the heart and soul of the community. This little bakery has everything you need for a day at the beach. Snacks, cookies, bread, sandwiches, and it is all made on the premises, delicious, and fresh.

The coffee is the best at the beach, and the second best thing about the bakery are the free smells! The best thing is undoubtedly the friendliness and helpfulness of everyone who works there. Well, that and the delicious bread!

This is a bakery that cares about the neighborhood, the environment, their customers, and their friends. If you want to know what's happening in Mission Beach, meet the local police, meet old friends and find new ones, be sure to spend a while at Olive...